[jdom-interest] The list is back under control

[Jason Hunter]

OK, the jdom-interest list is back under control.  Here's the word from
DJ on the support staff.  Sorry for the email flood.

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I think I've got the jdom-interest list back under control (as of about
1:00 AM). [I signed up for the list and at least I'm not getting
multiple copies.]  As a consequence of working on this, digests did NOT
go out at midnight.  They will resume tonight, and contain 2 days worth
of posts.

This is definitely a bug in Mailman 2.0b5.  (Which we upgraded in
mid-August to fix some queueing problems in the back end.) The bug is in
the program that runs from cron to re-attempt to deliver messages that
were previously "undeliverable" or had some sort of delivery error.

A fix was completed Friday, but has not been made available yet.  I'll
upgrade/patch mailman as soon as I can get my hands on the fix.  In the
meantime, I'll cut the cron job back to every 30 minutes from every 4
mins.  That should at least limit the volume of any recurrances.

I think I've got the offending messages cleared out of the system, but
they may pop up again.  Please let me know if they do.
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-jh-

P.S.  Bet we had the most popular open source project over the weekend,
as measured by mailing list traffic.  :-)

P.P.S.  Until I get word this problem has been fixed I will approve no
non-subscriber posts.  Those are the posts that triggered this bug.  If
you want to post from an address that's not subscribed, see the FAQ for
instructions.